Precedents is valid Scrabble Word

Is precedents a scrabble word?
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10 letters word
15 points in Scrabble
18 points in WWF

Definitions for PRECEDENTS in dictionary:

NOUN:

PRECEDENT, something that goes before
an earlier event or action that is regarded as an example or guide to be considered in subsequent similar circumstances
a previous case or legal decision that may be or (binding precedent) must be followed in subsequent similar cases

ADJECTIVE:

preceding in time, order, or importance

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

prior in time, order, arrangement, or significance

Words related to PRECEDENTS

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How to use PRECEDENTS in a sentence

Compelled by these precedents, though with intense reluctance, I submitted at last to the universal judgment.
No civilized nation is so little imprisoned in precedents and traditions.
But still he himself will be forced to have recourse to topics of equity, to the authority of precedents, and to some dangerous result.
Carpenter, in the Senate, there were plenty of precedents brought forward to show that in the cases of multitudes of men fines had been remitted.
There are indeed very grave grounds for the German complaint that Germany has been the victim of alien flattery and alien precedents.
A committee was immediately appointed to search for precedents, and ascertain if such a proceeding was justified by Parliamentary history.
How idle was it to search ancient precedents and accumulate old quotations from what Senators may have at different times said in relation to their principles and views.
His ideas had been matured by a diligent and minute study of English precedents, and now that his opportunity had come he was ready to grasp it.
The precedents usually cited are not any more satisfactory.
The Scots parliament was to be retained, and recent precedents also suggested the probability of Scottish representation in the parliament of England.

The precedents of respectable authorities, and in good times.
It is a character of all transitional periods that in them the cautious men regard past precedents of peril rather than sanguine expectations based on present chances.
Paul, following the precedents of policy in which he had been bred, thought it at this crisis necessary to subordinate ecclesiastical to temporal interests.
What has been our course heretofore under similar circumstances? Precedents, I submit, at once suggest themselves.
Let us be true to our own traditions, and follow our own precedents.
In conformity with precedents, the coronation was distinguished by the grant of new honours.
Ethical precedents and principles cannot be applied to the needs of the modern world.
There were few precedents for dealing with them in the experience of other countries, and the Law of Nations and the law of war furnished imperfect guides.
He would investigate a subject, give me the authorities, and precedents, and leave the conclusions to me.
His acts which varied from our ancestral precedents, however, were of simple character and inflicted no great harm upon us.
Such is the doctrine sustained in all the precedents recorded in the Book of Constitutions.
Nor were historical precedents wanting for the mistakes of the American statesmen.
To-day precedents, good or bad, are not much considered.
He was under instructions as Governor to enforce this view, which was, indeed, sustained by judicial precedents.
There is nothing hath perplexed me more than this doctrine of precedents.
But I do not mean, Fastidiosus, to cite only German precedents, nor to uphold the college drama with the names of Reuchlin, Melancthon, and Luther alone, majestic though they are.
Men are ceasing to regard the Bible as a series of legal enactments or common-law precedents of equal authority.
Our English prerogative law does not furnish principles, much less precedents, by which it can be defined or adjusted.
Being, however, herself a Tartar, she might have been expected to act in a way contrary to precedents set by Chinese dynasties.

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